Jacob Faithful, Volume 2E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1834 - Picaresque literature, English |
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... mouths , submitted with perfect indifference to the torture of their enemies . From the well - known virtues of this weed arose that peculiar expression , when you irritate another , that you " put his pipe out . " My father's pipe ...
... mouths , submitted with perfect indifference to the torture of their enemies . From the well - known virtues of this weed arose that peculiar expression , when you irritate another , that you " put his pipe out . " My father's pipe ...
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... mouth , and listening ; " I shouldn't wonder if it wasn't Joe . " And my fa- ther put in his pipe again , and smoked away as be- fore . 66 fa- My father was correct in his surmises . It was Joe who had made the splash which roused him ...
... mouth , and listening ; " I shouldn't wonder if it wasn't Joe . " And my fa- ther put in his pipe again , and smoked away as be- fore . 66 fa- My father was correct in his surmises . It was Joe who had made the splash which roused him ...
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... mouth , dropped the bowl of it in a perpendicular direction till it landed softly on the deck , then put it into his mouth again , and puffed mournfully . " Why , you don't mean to say that he is overboard ? ” screamed my mother . My ...
... mouth , dropped the bowl of it in a perpendicular direction till it landed softly on the deck , then put it into his mouth again , and puffed mournfully . " Why , you don't mean to say that he is overboard ? ” screamed my mother . My ...
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... mouth or my imagination . Grief had not taken away my ap- petite . I stopped occasionally to cry a little , wiped my eyes , and sat down again . It was more than two hours before I laid down my knife , and not until strong symptoms of ...
... mouth or my imagination . Grief had not taken away my ap- petite . I stopped occasionally to cry a little , wiped my eyes , and sat down again . It was more than two hours before I laid down my knife , and not until strong symptoms of ...
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Frederick Marryat. into the burning preparation , and tossing it into my / mouth . It burst forth from my tortured throat in a diverging shower , accompanied with a howl of pain . " The poor boy has scalded his mouth , " cried the lady ...
Frederick Marryat. into the burning preparation , and tossing it into my / mouth . It burst forth from my tortured throat in a diverging shower , accompanied with a howl of pain . " The poor boy has scalded his mouth , " cried the lady ...
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a'ter amusing anchor appeared barge Barnaby Bracegirdle Bill Short boat bottle Brentford cabin called Captain Turnbull caricature cluck cried deck Domine's Drummond exclaimed the Domine eyes fast father feelings Fleming Gazette give grog half hand head heard heart hour Jacob Faithful Knapps knew laughing legs lighter liquor little Sarah looked Madame Marables master matron mind mond morning mother mouth never Newfoundland dog night nose observed old Tom's overboard pannikin perceived PETER SIMPLE pipe Poll poor pulled Putney Bridge recollect replied old replied old Tom replied the Domine river River Thames round sail scouse ship shore skiff soon staysail suppose Take it coolly tell thee ther there's thing thought tide TOM CRINGLE'S LOG Tomkins Tommy took turned usher Volumes walked watch wharf What's wife Wimbledon Common wind wish yarn young young Tom
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Page 109 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 145 - A man's a fool who strives by force or skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't — and there's an end on't.
Page 107 - Then are they glad, because they are at rest : and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.
Page 118 - I didn't want for to live, Poll, when I thought you false.' " "Then Polly might have answered in the words of the old song, master; but her poor heart was too full, I suppose." And Tom sang, "Your Polly has never been false, she declares, Since last time we parted at Wapping Old Stairs.
Page 94 - ... to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead; and may God, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your soul!
Page 137 - COME O'ER THE SEA. COME o'er the sea, Maiden, with me, Mine thro' sunshine, storm, and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.
Page 122 - And swig the flowing can. And fiddle a little, And foot it a little.
Page 81 - I was in a Greenlandman, my first ship, and pulled ashore to my mother's cottage under the cliff. I thought the old soul would have died with joy.
Page 119 - A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together ! [Cries, and drops his face on arm, upon table.